The Alchemist Cookbook2016
Directed by Joel Potrykus
🏆 1 win & 2 nominations
The premise
Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous.
Horror Vault's take
Deep in the Michigan woods, a troubled young man named Sean holes up in a rundown trailer, chasing an ancient alchemical formula he believes will change his fortunes forever. Fueled by pills, paranoia, and fevered ambition, the line between his deteriorating mind and genuine supernatural threat becomes terrifyingly hard to read. Director Joel Potrykus crafts a slow, suffocating portrait of one man's unraveling that builds toward something far darker than mere delusion.
Content: Depictions Of Mental Illness And Mania, Drug Use, Occult Rituals, Disturbing Imagery
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